Combined folding bed and lounge.



D. T. OWEN.

COMBINED FOLDING BED AND LOUNGE.

AEPLIGATION FILED EPT,2,1913. 1,121,12c Patented Dec.15,1914.

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D. T. OWEN.

COMBINED FOLDING BED AND LOUNGE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.2,1913.

Patented Decf15, 1914.

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COMBINED FOLDING BED AND LOUNGE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2, 1913.

1,121,128, Patented Dec.15,1914.

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CQMBINED FOLDING BED AND LOUNGE.

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GOMBINED FOLDING BED AND-LOUNGE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 21 1913'.

Patented Dec. 15, 1914.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID T. OWEN, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR T0 D. T. OWEN COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

COMBINED FOLDING BED AND LOUNGE.

Application filed September 2, 1913.

To all TU/LO'IIb it may concern Be it known that 1, DAVID T. OWEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful I1npi'(. \'eine11ts in Combined Folding Beds and Lounges, of which the following is a specification, reference, being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

The purpose of this invention is to provide an improved construction of folding beds'of the character adapted, when folded with the parts in position occupied when folded up for use as a lounge. Fig. 2 is a longitudmal vertical section of the same when the parts are unfolded and extended for use as a bed. Fig. 3 is a rear side elevation showing a removable back screen member, partly broken away to disclose the skeleton back f-rame. Fig. & is an inner side elevation of a portion of one of the lounge ends, showing the devices for engagement of a lounge frame for connecting the ends. Fig. 5 a plan view of such lounge frame. Fig. (i is a sction at the line, 6,(5, on Fig.

Fig. Fig. 2. Fig. 8 is a section at the line, 8,S, on Fig. 2. Fig. 9 is a plan view of the bed frame unfolded, portionsof intermediate joints being broken away to condense the view. Fig. 10. is a section in the same vertic-ill longitudinal plane as Fig. 2, showing the structure in the process of folding up the bed. Fig. 11 is a detail plan view of a joint in the folding bed frame. Fig. 12 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 13 is a detail section at the line 13-13 on Fig. 10. Fig. 14: is a partly sectional detail elevation of one forward lower-corner portion of the lounge tie-frame, section being made at the line, 1414, on Fig. 10.

In the structure illustrated in the drawings, the lounge proper is of the type commonly called a davenport, and is shown of knock-down construction, comprising lounge ends, A,-A, rigidly joined together by a tie frame, B, of wrought structural iron, and further connected by a top rail, C, at the Specification of Letters Patent.

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Patented Dec. 15, 1914:.

Serial No. 787,625.

upper edge of the back, and a front rail, C, at the lower part of the forward side of the seat. The lounge tie frame, B, consists of a front frame portion comprising vertical angle iron corner posts, 1,1, connected by longitudinal angle iron tie bars, 2 and 3, and anapproximately horizontal rcarwardly-extending frame portion, consisting of fore-amtaft-extending angle iron bars, 4,-'l, bolted at their forward ends to the lower end of the angle iron posts, 1, and lower tie bar, 2, and tied together near their rear ends by the longitudinal angle iron tie bar, 5. Said horizontal frame portion is further made rigid with the verticalforward portion by oblique brace bars, 6,G. The bars, "i -l, eaclr support a bracket or post, 7, which is braced by a hmrizontal tie bar, 8, extending from near its upper end to the vertical angle iron post, 1, said bracket being made of angle iron having its upper end portion bent in the plane of one of the flanges of-the angle iron to i'orm a h rizontally-extending portion, 7", of which the other flange is at the upper edge and forms a horizontal ledge for supporting one member of the bed frame, as hereinafter explained, said flange extending on down along the back edge of the lip-standing por-- tion of said bracket to afford a continuation of said ledge in the form of a guide or approach thereto for a purpose hereinafter explained.

The frame, l3, connects the two lounge ends by means of a hook, 1:3, upon. each of said lounge ends, which engages a slot, 13, in the fore-and-aft-extending flange of the corner post, 1. which is further stopped on the lounge end by a bracket, 14. on the latter, the bars, i, of the rearwaidly-extending portion of said lounge frame being lodged in stirrups, 15, upon the inner side of the lounge ends, respectively, near the rear edge thereof. The two lounge ends being thus tied together by the frame, B, engaged between them. hold in place the top rail, C, and forward bottom rail, 0, properly tenoned into said lounge ends, as may be understood without special description or illustration. The top rail, C, is further secured to the lounge ends for the purpose of tying them together at-the upper rear corner by angle-sha oed fastenings, 16, having one flange bol ed fast to the rail, and the other flange t0 the inner side of the lounge end, the bolts, 17, which efi'ect the latter securepends below,and is at one side suspended from said intermediate member,'D, as seen in Fig. 2. The said intermediate member consists of side bars, 20, pi'ioted to the lounge frame at the ends of said side bars which are forward when said intermediate member, D, is in seat-serving" position, be-

ing the rear ends of said bars or rear side of 4.

said member, D,,when it is in bed-serving position, the pivots being near the upper forward corners of the lounge frame. The detail construction for such pivoting consists in fortifying the upper end of the post, 1, of the lounge frame by an angle member, 1, one flange of said angle iron being lodged against the forward flange of the post, and the other flange of the angle iron being parallel with the fore-and-aft flange of the post, the pivot bolt, 22, being inserted thr ugh said parallel flanges with a spacing sleeve, 23, on the bolt between the two parallel flanges, the bolt protruding inwardly for pivoting the said intermediate frame member, D, whichfor that purpose as well as for hinging an adjacent frame member to it, has its side bar, 20, represented as tubular,-terininated by a fitting, 25, which is pivotally engaged with the inwardly-projecting end of the bolt, 22. Said bed frame comprises beside .the intermediate member, D, an inner member, E, represented as made of metal tubing bent to form three sides of a rectangle, the two opposite sides, 26, being hinged at their ends to the corresponding sides, 20, of the nitermediate frame member, D, by means of terminal fittings, 27, pivoted to the terminal fittings,-25, of the side bars, 20, of the intermediate member. The hinge pivot'of the two fittings, 27 and 25, is ofiset upwardly from the line of the side bars, 20 and 26, of said bed frame members, as seen in Fig. 2. after explained, the two frame members, D and E, are connected by stretchable springs, 28, one at each of thehinge joints just described, the spring in each case being connected by a short link, 29, with the intermediate frame bar, 20, said connection being near the pivot of the intermediate frame bar to the lounge frame and by a longer link, 30, "with the sidebar, 26, of the inner frame, E,

said link, 30, being long enough to extend past the lower edge of a flange, 27, with which the fitting, 27, is provided, said flange extending downward from the lower edge of the fitting so that at a certain point inthe folding of the two bed frame members, D

For a minor purpose hereinmamas and E, the link, 30, is stopped against the edge of said flange, 27 and after that point as the folding continues, the spring is stretched, and by its elastic resistance to stretching tends to ease the descent of the intermediate member rearward into seatsupporting position and aid in starting it up. The rear or inner member, Epis supported in bed-serving position by abutments, 31,-31, projecting outwardly from, the two side bars of said rear member, and lodging upon the horizontally-extending upper end portions, 7 of the brackets, 7. A-purpose of offsetting the hinge pivot of the intermediate and rear bed frame members of the ivot of said intermediate member to the ounge frame, is to cause the abutments, 31, to runoff said ledge when the intermediate member is folded up rearward toward seatserving position, the said abutment following on down along the flange of said bracket 'which forms the ledge as the rearward foldsaid movement of the intermediate seatsupporting member. In the reverse movement,-that is, for unfolding the bed frame, the abutments pass back around the end of the flange, and come into contact therewith on the rear side, and ride up there-along, the flange thus serving as a guide and approach by which the abutments finally arrive on the horizontal ledge at the upper end of a 105, bracket where theyare supported while the bed frame is in unfolded or bed-serving position.

At the outer side of the intermediate frame member, D, it is provided with a lie floor support, H, consisting of a rigid frame structure which comprises preferably an angle iron member, 36, which extends crosswise of the bed frame g' -forming a rigid connection between the two outerterminal fit- 1-15 tings, 35, of said intermediate bed frame member, D, said angle iron being depressed intermediate its ends a sufficient distance below the level of the. side bars of the frame, 20, to afford free space for the action of the mattress-supporting spring structure,

40, which is extended between the side bars of all the bed frame members. To the said intermediate depressed horizontal portion of the bar, 36, legs, 37-37, are bolted rigidly near the obliquely up-bent ends, 36 and extend thence downward to the floor in the inverted bed-serving position of the bed frame. To the top rail of the hack, the seat back proper, 50, is hinged at its upper edge so that it may fold up to the position shown in Fig. 2 to open the entrance at the forward side into the skeleton back into which, as will be hereinafter explained, the outer bed frame member, F, and seat carrying member, D, are folded inorder to put the device in position for use as a seat or lounge. It will be understood that the said back member, 50, is swung up to the position shown in Fig. 2 when the device is to be extended into bed-serving position. For supporting it in its up-swung or open position, there is provided a latch, 55, pivoted to a heel bracket, 56, on the inner or back side of the member, 50, near its hinge edge, near one end, and upon the adjacent lounge end there is mounted a bracket, 57, having a runway for the terminal oil'set stud, 58, of said latch, said run-way having at its upper part which extends forward in inclined direction, one or more notches or steps, 59, for the engagement of said stud, 58, into which the latter falls when the member, 50, is swung up to open position shown in Fig. 2. When the parts of the bed and seat have been returned to folded or seatserving position, the operator will release the latch, 55, and allow the back member. 50, to swing down to scat-serving position shown in Fig. 1, at which position its lower edge lodges against stops, 21., mounted rigidly upon the rear edge of the seat, 21.

In order that the bed frame may have an adequate length transversely of the length of the lounge, and may nevertheless be adapted to be entirely folded up into the lounge structure when the device is to be used for a seat, and that this may be accomplished without making the back of the lounge undesirably high, or the seat undesirably wide. thebed frame is made to comprise a third member, F, hinged to the member, D, at the side thereof, remote from its pivot, to the lounge frame, and provided with folding legs. -13, at the side remote from its hinge to said member, D; and to said member, F, there is further hinged a fourth bed frame member, G, which, being designed to constitute the head end of the bed and to serve usually as a pillow support, is so hinged to the transverse part, ii, of the member, F, as to be stopped thereon at its unfolded or pillow-supporting position shown in Fig. 2, without necessity for legs or other intermediate fioo'r supports at its outer side. The member, F, is formed of iron pipe bent to form three sides of a rectangle, the mid dle, ll. of the three sides being the outer side, and parallel opposite sides, 42, being pivotally connected at their ends -to the outer ends of the side bars, 20, of the intermediate member, D. For the purpose of adapting the entire bed frame, comprising the four members described, to. be folded up when the mattress is lodged upon them, the several hinge connections are constructed so that the several members may be folded up zig-zag,that is, the alternate joints being flexed in opposite directions in the folding. The inner member, E, is thus adapted to be folded upward from the plane of the extended bed, though the folding in actual operation is in the opposite direc tion,that is to say, the member, D, folds .upward and over rearward toward the member, E, while the latter descends, as dc scribed, at its inner side to the position shown in Fig. 2. The means on the bracket, 7, which supports the inner member, I), at bed-serving position, being such as to offer no obstruction to the upward outward swinging of said inner member, E, away from bed-serving position, and the structure being otherwise so designed as to offer no obstruction to such upward outward swinging of said member, it is possible to completely uncover the entire space between the lounge ends and gain easy access thereto for cleaning; and this is further facilitated by the removability of the back member, which a frame, 60, upon which fabric. (31, is stretched, adapted to close the skeleton back at the rear by means of hooks, 62, on the lower bar of said back frame which engage notches, =l, on the sidebars of the rearward-extemling member of the lounge frame, the bars, (53, and the side bars, (34-, of the frame of said back member being lodged in rabbets formed upon the rear edges of the top rail, C, and lounge ends, and retained by buttons, 65.

It will be observed thatthe construction of the folding bed frame, as to the three main members, is that each of said three members consists siibstantially of three sides of a rectangle open at the fourth side. The inner and outer of said three members are each made by folding a tubular bar in the manner indicated, and the middle of the three members is given substantially this form by the floor support which rigidly connects the two parallel side bars of said middle member. This floor support, however, is depressed so as not to extend in the same plane as the two side bars, which, nevertheless has the elfect to give said middle mem- -bcr substantially the rectangular form with an open side as described. It will be noticed that the assembling of three members of this form with the ooen sides of the inner and outer members facing inward toward the middle member, and with the ends of the side bars of said inner and outer members respectively, hinged to the opposite side bars of the middle number, in view of the depression of the cross bar of said middle member, results in forming, when the three members are unfolded into the. same plane, a rectangular frame which is substantially unobstructed between its ends. This renders it possible to stretch a continuous bed spring, K, on this frame from end to end, and from side to side, which encounters no obstruction to yielding under load at-any point of its length. r s

The joints of the side bars, 42, of the member, F, to the side bars, 20, of the member,

F, down from the plane of the extended bed, and for arresting the unfolding with the two members in the same plane, the hinges at these joints being-formed as seen in Figs.

11 and 12, sothat the shoulders, and 35 will be drawn out to its limit at the head the inner member, E, is

bar, ll, of the member, 1*,

" ber, F.

end on unfolding the bed including the unfolding or. folding outward of the said head member,'Gr. lVhen the bed is to be folded up, the operator will take hold of the outer member, F, thereby tilting the two members, D and F, as a unitary structure about the pivot of the member, D, to the lounge frame, this resulting from the fact that the member, F, is stopped from folding up and over towardthe member, D, by the hinge construction above described. In thus tilting up the, two members, D and F, together, thrust inward by reason of the ofi'setting of the hinge of the members, vD and E, from the pivot of the member, D, to the lounge frame; and the abutment, 31, running ofi the ledge, 7 the inner member, E, descends at its inner end while the abutment runs on down along the flange, 7*, which constitutes the approach to the portion of .said flange which forms the supporting'ledge proper. When in this process the several bed frame members become inclined at a certain angle, the mattress will slide down inward, the member, (l, folding over inward into the mem- When in thisfolding process the outer side of the member, D, is at convenient height for the operator to take hold of the floor support which extends rigidly therefrom, the member, F, will be folded back against said floor support and the legs, 4.3, folded in against the member, F, and the tilting over inward of the entire structure being continued, the parts reach the position shown in Fig. 2 at which the mattress is folded between the members, D and E, and extends a short distance up behind themember, .F, which together with the floor support, H, now occupies a position in the skeleton back behind which the back member, 50, may be folded D, are constructed for folding the member,

and lift said the position at prising-a lounge-seat-carrying member pivand a frame which I below the seat level; a bed frame comprising a lounge-seat-carrying member pivoted to said lounge frame at the forward side of said member and forward part of said frame, and adapted to be swung upward forward and downward about its pivot to invert the lounge seat; a floor support ext-ended rigidly from said member remotely from its pivoted side, the bed-frame having hinged at the same side of said lounge-seat carrying member for folding toward the rigid floor sup ort, an additional bed-supporting member, the lounge-backcomprismg in combination with such skeleton back-frame, a backmembcr movably supported on the skeleton back frame, for swinging up to admit the floor support and the additional bed-supporting member into the skeleton back.

2. In a folding bed lounge, in combination with a lounge support comprising a skeleton back frame; lounge ends and a frame which connects them rigidly at the forward side below the seat level; a bed. frame comprising a lounge-seat-carrying member pivoted to said lounge frame at the forward. side of said member and forward. part of said lounge frame, and adapted to be swung upward forward and downward about its pivot to invert the lounge seat; a

floor support extended rigidly from the swinging edge of said member, the lounge back comprising, in combination with said skeleton back frame, a back-supporting member hinged at its upper edge to the up-' per side of the skeleton backframe, and adapted to be swung up to admit said floor support into the skeleton back; an inner bed frame member hinged to the pivoted side of the lounge-seat-carrymg member at a line proximate to its said pivot, but offset therefrom, said inner member having at its ends endwiseprojecting abutmcnts, frame having lodgments for said abutmcnts positioned so as to be approached freely from above by the abutments in the downward swinging of said inner. frame, and adapted to havethe abutments travel off from them in the rearward thrust of the inner frame which results from til; proximate, but offsetrelation of said hinge and pivot lines.

3. In a folding bed lounge, in combination with a lounge frame, a bed frame comthe. lounge oted to said lounge frame at the forward side of said member at the forward part of said frame, and adapted to be swung upward forward and downward about its pivot to invert the lounge seat; inner and outer bed frame members hinged to the longitudinal sides of said lounge-seat-carrying member; means by which the inner of said bed frame members is supported on the lounge frame, and folding legs at the free edge of the outer of said bed frame members, and a fourth bed frame member hinged to said outer member at a line proximate .to its outer edge and adapted to fold inward upon said outer member and to be unfolded approximately to the plane of the outer member, and means for arresting it on said outer member at said unfolded position.

4. In a folding bed lounge, in combina tion with a lounge frame a four-membered bed frame whose several members are hinged together for folding'zig-zag, a lounge seat supported by the next to the innermost member being pivoted to the lounge frame at the forward side of the latter for inverting the seat when said member swings to bed-supporting position; means by which the innermost member is supported at its free edge on the lounge frame when the seat is thus inverted, said means being adapted to permit the said inner edge of said inner member to descend when the seat is returned to the normal seat position, the outermost member being adapted at its outer side for securement of a mattress and for folding up inward onto the next member, whereby the mattress is drawn out by the unfolding of said outermost member and dropped in when the bed members are folded.

5. In a folding bed lounge, in combination with a lounge support which comprises lounge ends and connections between them, forming a skeleton back; a bed frame comprising a lounge-seat-carrying member pivoted to the lounge support at the forward side of said 'member and forward part of said support for swinging upward forward and downward about its pivot to unfold the lounge seat, an additional bed frame member connected successively with the outer longitudinal side of said seat-carrying member, and adapted to be folded into the keleton back.

6. In a folding bed lounge, in combina tion with a lounge support which comprises lounge ends and connections between them forming a skeleton back; a bed frame com prising a lounge-seat-carrying member, pivoted to the lounge support at the forward side of said member and forward part of said support for swinging upward, forward and downward about its pivot to invert the lounge seat; additional bed frame members connected successively with the outer longitudinal side of said seat-carrying member, and adapted to be folded into the skeleton back, and a disengageable member for closing the skeleton back at the rear.

7. In a folding bed lounge, in combination with a lounge support comprising lounge ends and a frame which connects them to the forward side, said connecting frame comprising upright end posts and transverse bars connecting said posts at a level relatively remote from the upper ends of the posts, and oblique braces from one of said transverse bars near the ends extending upwardly and outwardly to the posts, whereby the upper ends of the posts are maintained rigidly at their distance from each other without obstruction between them at said ends; a folding bed frame, comprising three members, each of which is substantially a rectangle open at. one end, the open end of the middle member.

being pivoted to the upper ends of the posts, and the open ends of the end members, respectively, being pivoted to the corresponding ends of the side bars of the middle member.

8. In a folding bed lounge, in combination with a lounge support comprising lounge ends and a frame which connects them to the forward side, said connecting frame comprising upright end posts and transverse bars connecting said posts at a level relatively remote from the upper ends of the posts, and oblique braces from one of said transverse bars near the ends extending upwardly and outwardly to the posts, whereby the upper ends of the posts are maintained rigidly at their distance from each other without obstruction between them at said ends; a'folding bed frame, comprising three members, each of which is substantially a rectangle open at one end, the open end of the middle member being pivoted to the upper ends of the posts, and the open ends of the end members, respectively, being pivoted to the corresponding ends of the side bars of the middle member. the cross member which forms the closed end of the rectangle which const tutes the middle member being depressed below the plane of the side bar of said rectangle for the greater portion of its distance between said side bars and at the ends of said depressed portion extended obliquely up to meet said side bars.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Cleveland,,Ohio, this 26th day of Aug, 1913.

DAVID T. OWEN. lVitnesses:

J. O. RoEDnR, O. E. LINN. 

